Bad Bunny can now add “foul ball magnet” to his growing list of accolades.
The 31-year-old Puerto Rican superstar was spotted sitting behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, October 7, during Game 3 of the ALDS between the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays.
In the second inning, a foul ball off the bat of Toronto’s Anthony Santander popped way up into the New York night sky and landed right in Bad Bunny’s lap. He smiled, raised the ball to the crowd, and drew cheers from fans who couldn’t believe his luck.
One fan on X summed it up perfectly, writing, “Even the baseballs wanna collab with him now 😎🎤”
While his catch was lighthearted, the rest of Bad Bunny’s week has been anything but.
The Grammy winner is still at the center of a political storm following his selection as the Super Bowl LX halftime performer, a move that has been met with both celebration and controversy.
President Donald Trump blasted the decision in a Newsmax interview.
“I never heard of him,” he said on Monday, October 6. “I don’t know who he is, I don’t know why they’re doing it, it’s crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment, I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stirred more backlash when she told conservative commentator Benny Johnson on Friday, October 3, that ICE “will be all over the place” at the Super Bowl.
“I have the responsibility for making sure everybody who goes to the Super Bowl has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave, and that’s what America’s about,” Noem said. “So yeah, we’ll be all over that place. We’re going to enforce the law.”
She added, “So, I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country.”
Noem also took aim at the NFL as a whole, claiming that “they suck.”
“God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day, and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe,” she argued. “And they’re so weak, we’ll fix it.”
Bad Bunny, for his part, addressed the backlash directly during his Saturday Night Live monologue over the weekend.
“I’m very happy, and I think everyone is happy about it — even Fox News,” he joked.
After switching briefly to Spanish, he continued, “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.”
Later in the show, he grew more serious, saying in Spanish, “Our footprints and contributions in this country, no one will ever be able to take them away or erase them.”
Much of the controversy surrounding Bad Bunny being named Super Bowl halftime performer stems from an interview with i-D Magazine on September 10th, when he explained why he has recently refused to perform in the United States.
“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate — I’ve performed there many times. All of [the shows] have been successful,” he said. “But there was the issue of — like, f***ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
Despite the controversy, Jennifer Lopez backed the move during a Monday, October 6, interview on the Today show claiming that, “I think he’s about to blow everybody’s mind. It’s an introduction to some people.”
